kickingfrog

… I start roughing out multiple fish species openers on multiple waters combined with turkey and grouse seasons and adding them to my calendars. I also start to get an idea as to day trips and possible overnighters for fins and/or feathers. This about the time I start to wonder if I should splurge on a fly-in or at least a very remote extended trip. The family summer vacation options. Do I need/want to replace any equipment and even what's "new" that I might want to try. How about you?

https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/new-parking-app-for-anglers-and-snowmobilers-in-innisfil-1.4269715 For Ram Gandhi, it’s an easy way to make a buck. In the past, the Innisfil homeowner allowed anglers and snowmobilers to park in his driveway when there was no place left on the street, but now he’s renting it out. “I’m charging just about ten-dollars for a flat rate,” says Gandhi. The town has partnered with Rover Parking to introduce a free app to give homeowners, like Gandhi, the opportunity to rent out their driveway, helping the town ease the parking problem. “The hope is to put some of the cars that are parked on the roads into existing infrastructure, into existing driveways, so that as it defers us the need for the municipality to have to invest in parking lots in the future,” says Jason Inwood, Town of Innisfil. Snowmobilers that frequent the area say parking is limited, and when they do find a spot, there can be restrictions. “You gotta come early,” says Phil Falcone. “If you don’t come early, everything gets taken.” Gandhi says he has seen people drive around for 15 to 30 minutes trying to find a place to park. “The last two years they just come up and knock on my door because they couldn’t find any parking on the street. It gets busy.” Homeowners can find out more information on the free parking app here.

"ON THE GOBY FLY!!!!" could be heard all around the bay.

It is a pfd (personal floatation device), not a life jacket/vest. For most of us on inland waters a pfd is all that is required. Like other style inflatables it only qualifies if you are wearing it. The moment you take it off you'd better have a standard style on hand. The belt style has been around for a long time but maybe not as popular, or less noticeable??? Where I see them the most is the stand-up paddle boarders… but many of the ones doing yoga on the SUP take them off. lol

Sask. fishermen go 'part MacGyver, part Red Green' to retrieve sunken cellphone https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-duo-phone-in-lake-macguyvers-1.4981023 Two avid Saskatchewan fishermen went to extremes to save a cellphone that had taken an icy plunge. Their ordeal started when Luc Lemoine (who is a CBC employee) was ice fishing with his daughter Emily and his pal Jason Matity on Last Mountain Lake north of Regina. Matity has a fishing show called matitysgetfishing.com. This meant the group had underwater cameras with them. Lemoine was leaning over the ice hole with his phone in a breast pocket. "It was on my chest and I bent over to adjust something in the ice hole and it went right in without even hitting the edge," he said. The phone was easily replaceable, but the photos stored on the SD card were not. "My dad passed away in June and I'd gone to see him in May and we'd taken some photos together," Lemoine said. "I wanted those photos back because there was no way I could replace them. And stupid me I hadn't done a backup." With their cameras they could see the phone sitting on the bottom of the murky lake about nine metres down. "(The phone) was a leather case, so you thought if you could get a hook in there, you might be able to just snag it," said Matity. "But all we did was kept stirring up mud and muck." After a couple of hours fishing in vain the two friends went home to make a rescue plan. A couple of days later they were back at the lake with 25 metres of plumbing pipe and two giant ladles. "We were definitely part MacGyver, part Red Green because we were using a lot of duct tape," Lemoine said. They had taped a camera to the pipe. When they lowered it into the lake they found a curious observer. "There's a perch just staring right into the camera going, 'Hmm you guys aren't going to catch me today because you've got other work to do,' " Matity said. The rescue mission did not start well. Their early attempts at scooping up the phone ended up burying it in the silt. It took them six hours, but they were finally able to retrieve the phone. "The feeling of success was as good as catching any fish I've caught before," Matity laughed. They still didn't know what they could salvage from their mission. Lemoine put the SD card in a bucket of rice and waited fretfully for six days before putting the SD card into his new phone. "I fired it up and right away the phone recognized it had an SD card in it," he said. "I went and looked for my folders and there they were.I had all of my pictures back. The first thing he did was backup his photos. Matity pointed out another benefit of the mission. "We have a lovely how-to video of how you get your phone back out of deep water," he said.

Looking for some duck a l'orange no doubt.

Matt Scrafford's job involves getting up close and personal with a notoriously elusive animal. He studies wolverines, and is currently working on a project that involves live-trapping, and tracking the animals near the town of Red Lake in northwestern Ontario. It's not easy to do — to say wolverines keep to themselves would be an understatement — but that's what Scrafford loves about the job. Full story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wolverine-tracking-red-lake-1.4973538

Braid might cost more up front but is cheaper in the end. Under all the conditions I fish, braid lasts longer. When it gets too worn I reverse it and get a few more seasons out of it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anglers-win-supreme-court-battle-against-u-s-billionaire-over-access-to-lakes-roads-1.4937132 A precedent-setting B.C. Supreme Court decision has ruled that the public should be able to access fishing lakes near Merritt, B.C., after years of what has been described as a "David and Goliath" legal battle. For years, the Douglas Lake Cattle Company (DLCC), the largest working ranch in Canada, owned by U.S. billionaire Stan Kroenke, and a group of determined anglers have been going head to head. Their dispute centred primarily on access to two fishing lakes and a road.

Gasoline on a dumpster fire that is the arena deal. Classic.

A well built saltwater reel would handle a muskie fight with zero issues. Many 15-20lb saltwater fish fight harder and longer than any muskie that's ever swum, not even close. However that reel might not stand up to long term casting and reeling of the large muskie baits that are often used now. The salt water reel is also likely geared for fast lure retrieves that are needed for saltwater and that would work against you as well.

When it's an anchor rope.

And a lake with those types of fish tend to be more of a delicate balance of chemistry and organisms than most of the lakes around here that most of use are used to.

From National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/10/wildlife-watch-news-forensics-fish-ear-bones-crime/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=facebook::cmp=editorial::add=fb20181012animals-fishearbones::rid=&sf199843136=1 State biologists discovered two illegally introduced walleyes, a carnivorous species that grows to about two feet long, in Swan Lake, in northwestern Montana. The scientists had been netting for lake trout, another invasive species, when they serendipitously caught the walleyes and took them back to the lab for analysis.

Like I don't have enough stuff to throw my money at.

Are you seeing more spruce? Very small sample, but in 2 trips we've seen a far higher number of spruce to ruffed and in 2 different regions.

We got some up your way on Saturday. HOT and thick.

….Wear protection.

You go for a walk with the boom stick yet?

The level of protection some foam on a pfd is going to provide is being over estimated and will not keep your face out of the water if you are unconscious. People do have the ability to make a choice, just make sure you understand what those choices are.

They are infinitely better than no life jacket or pfd. Another key thing to remember is that the standard pfds that are often used, if worn, will not keep an unconscious adult's face out of the water. Only life jackets do that and most of the inflatables are that (there are those belt type ones that are not life jackets). Another factor is that if the inflatable is not worn it does not count as a floatation device. I always have a standard life jacket on board for me in case I take my inflatable off and forget to put it back on. What's your life worth to you? No one plans on falling overboard.

Ya, it was his first very own rod and reel and he feels pretty bad. The flip side is he isn't going to miss out on a fishing trip because of it and maybe he'll learn a lesson on keeping track of his stuff. All part of growing up.

My son left his rod and reel (he remembered his sister's) at the launch Saturday September 8th. Pflueger reel, Berkley rod, bright yellow braid, may have had a pop-r style lure on it. Went back Sunday and is wasn't there. Reward. Call or text me at 705 795 6579. Thanks.

Well damn.

Weather is complex and clearly beyond most people. The tornados called for on Monday touched down not far from here. I went out side just before the warnings started and there wasn't a breath of wind nor rain. It was still and there wasn't a sound, the bugs and birds knew something was up. It stayed like that and even the satellite never went down. The system that the tornadoes sprung from went right over out house but we would have barely noticed. That doesn't mean we weren't in some danger if a bird had farted at just the right/wrong time.